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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

One of my tech teachers (ex robotics coach) has acid reflux and he blames it on robotics.
Back when he was robotics coach, he would drink lots of soda and then leave late. After the long drive home, he would be so tired that he would eat junk food then go to sleep. He also said it kept him away from his family.
So it can affect the adults and mentors too.

It doesn't seem to affect my health at all; if it did, I wouldn't mind.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

It depends on how you and your body handle stress, what's going on in your school life, your family life, etc.

I do have IBS, began the beginning of my senior year, before robotics season started. I have to devote time to staying healthy now, a little more than most people. I need at least 8 hrs of sleep per night or else I get sick, I need to watch what I eat, I need to spend some time just relaxing or else things catch up with me and I get sick.

Bottom line, listen to you body (in my case literally my gut). I don't think robotics is necessarily bad for your health, but things that are good for you in moderation can be bad for you in excess, it just depends on where your specific moderation and excess limits are.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

No! No! No!

There is NO credible evidence that Stress, Lack of Sleep or Junk Food has any negative effect on health. The studies that links Heart Attacks, High Blood Pressure and Weight Gain to robotics was funded by a bunch of ex-jocks to try and lure youth to the dark side.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

actually it depends on what you do in robotics... i know if your a machinist all your life they won't do MRI scans.. so yeah not like we are machining parts 24/7/365...but really i find it to relieve my stress in school-- but yeah it can add to stress if you don't balance your time as a student and even as a mentor. everything in life can be stressful just handle it the way you need to and yeah you'll be fine. relax and live cause FIRST is cool and one of the best things ever created and you'll ever experience.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

Yes.

Simple explanation:
Last off season I lost 40 lbs. This build season I've regained 5 lbs from not biking as much . I miss the days of late summer when 4000-5000 calories was necessary to maintain my weight.

As soon as it stays above 40 F I'm riding outside again.

It's not like taking 2 grad classes and working full time while trying to still be a mentor is unhealthy for a person . Right?

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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

*gasp* Robotics? bad for your health? I refuse to accept that as an answer.

As others have already said in this thread, it's not Robotics in and of itself that is bad for your health, but how you respond to robotics that can be unhealthy. If you choose to let robotics problems cause you worry 24/7, if you decide to live build season in the workshop, surviving only on junkfood and maybe 15 min sleep a night, then sure, your health will go down.
but if you instead choose to think about the stuff your robot does well, actually go outside once in a while and have healthier food, and get a few hours of sleep a night, then your health shouldn't decline (well, at least not from your involvement with robotics).
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

If working makes you sick, then I suggest that you don't join any teams...or exercise...or do anything other than live a sedentary lifestyle for the rest of your days. Honestly, eat right and sleep. That may be a little basic, but if I can eat fast food five days a week (don't ask, it's a long story) and be all right, then you can do robotics and be fine. I honestly don't see how it can generate enough stress to create chronic disorders.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

Robotics only seem to give me stress induced(sp) headaches. Other than that, its bad for my grades, i sign out of every class to work on it, and in turn, when my parents beat me for almost failing physics, yeah, id say its bad for your health. (yeah, i know thats a really bad run on sentance)
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

My hands are scraped, cut, and sore. My whole body is sore. I haven't had a day off since the kickoff. This stupid thing invades my thoughts and my dreams. I go to sleep thinking of it and wake up thinking of it.

The last two years, I've taken a vacation after the robot shipped and remember spending a lovely week on Kauai sick as a dog.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

I actually think robotic enhances your health. I attend a very academically advanced (in other words: difficult) school, and I find myself doing the same thing everyday. Without robotics, I think I would die of boredom. (Being melodramatic )
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

I don't know how bad it is... our team logs hours since we can't afford to bring everyone to the competitions. There is a small group of us that are usually the last ones to leave, and we usually start acting pretty weird near the end, so it probably does affect our health. Speaking of which I have 50.5 hours logged this week... so far (it was the 2nd half of exams).... O_O.
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

Well so far the worst injury physically was when a mentor of the was threading a well ground shaft through a bearing and got slaughtered by the key way. Lets just say the bearing his hand and the shaft were nice and red. His hand in 2 places. Next I'm trying to hammer a bearing out of a hole( yes I used a perfectly calculated screw that was just utterly perfect) that is until I kinda missed the screw and well Mr. Team captain decided to protect the Scrap piece from last years robot with his finger. But the broken bits end mills and drill bits total about 3 all together. Aren't good but Its Mr. Co-Captain that is good at sooting them at people. And that $@#$@#$@#$@# new drill bit its sharp when you decide to twist it in your fingers to unjam it because you stuck it in a pre-drilled hole. Also Gotta remember I come to robotics today and look at the tower we have it has a endmilled team number on it and on another side it doesnt resemble it. I finally remember ( I said hey Yoni How did the drill bit work on milling that aluminum) well you get the idea when someone trys to mill numbers into aluminum with a drill bit.

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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

Yes. Don't let the stress get to you. Don't let the large amount of work get to you and keep your eye on the goal. Every accomplishment deserves a high-five(every high-five deserves rebound). You aren't superman.

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Robots will kill you.

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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

*falls over in shock* There is no possible way that FIRST can be bad for you!! wait... is giving up sleep bad for you? Cause if it is I'm pretty addicted then...
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Re: Is robotics bad for your health?

I think the real question is, How do we deal with stress without totally screwing up on the robot or otherwise. As wierd as the question sounds, it has some truth to it.
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